Mutual Housing to add solar to Davis projects

Four of Mutual Housing’s affordable housing projects in Davis are all reaching for the sun.

Within the next few months, all of them will be outfitted with solar voltaic panels in a partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which is administering more than $47 million for low-income housing projects to do so statewide.

A fifth Mutual Housing project, the recently completed New Harmony Mutual Housing, won’t need the upgrade because it was built with 780 solar panels intact. Mutual Housing officials believe that makes it the largest private solar power installation in the city.

“It makes good sense for Mutual Housing properties in Davis to go solar,” Mutual Housing CEO Rachel Iskow, said in a news release.. “The Davis community, the mayor and City Council have a strong ‘green’ orientation, a value that mutual housing leaders share.”

In addition to helping the city’s reputation, the panels to be installed will also save money for residents at the four projects.